…in the April 24th edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education Anne Curzan presents a fun piece on the word slash and it‘s emergence [as a] a new conjunction/conjunctive adverb. It’s a fine piece on the elasticity of the English language, and brings to mind how poetry is a recital of the changeable music of words. All poetry in some way is music, or, is written for a tone to turn meaning into truth. Manipulating the music in words is craft of poetry (irregardless of the form), and to finish National Poetry month a nod to one English poetry’s greatest musician–slash–craftsman, John Keats. The list below are new titles by and about Keats:
- John Keats : A New Life by Nicholas Roe
- The Keats Brothers : the Life of John and George by Denise Gigante
- Young Romantics : the Tangled Lives of English Poetry’s Greatest Generation by Daisy Hay
- Bright Star Directed by Jane Campion, Starring Abbie Cornish & Ben Whishaw
- Can Poetry Save the Earth? : a Field Guide to Nature Poems by John Felstiner
- Posthumous Keats : a Personal Biography by Stanley Plumly
- Romantic Complexity : Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth by Jack Stillinger
- John Keats Edited by Elizabeth Cook
The list title on the list is our copy of the Oxford Standard Authors edition of Keats’ poems.